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As is my usual habit I am reading a bunch of stuff at the moment:
--Sherlock Holmes: I decided it was time to revisit the Doyle stories -- and I've started with "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" -- amazing how these stories can continue to entertain and delight even after multiple rereads that started when I was a kid!
--Sax Rohmer: I am finding the novels with Paul Harvey, a detective involved in the slightly supernatural, to be major hoots -- "Bat Wing" and "Fire-Tongue". Also have "Dope" which looks to be amazing.
--S.S. Van Dine: I am finally starting to read the Philo Vance novels
--Jules Verne: I have never read "In Search of the Castaways" -- so far lots of fun
--Talbot Mundy: I have a paperback set of the Tros of Samothrace series that I've never opened until now. Also highly enjoyable.
As you can see I am having a "pulpy" holiday season!
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continuing my Brit rock star series.....
PAUL MCCARTNEY
next up: WHO I AM by Peter T.
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DROOD by Dan Simmons
100 pages so far and it's an absolute thrill! I'm a huge fan of Wilkie Collins' mystery novels and as you may know he and Dickens wrote together a few novels. Well, this novel DROOD, narrated by Wilkie Collins -- like in his novels, there's a narrator who investigates a mystery -- is about the last novel written by Dickens shortly before he died : THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD -- and i think it's better and more interesting to read first that short original novel by Dickens to get into "the mood".
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What's happened to the members of this board? Because Barnes & Noble are closing stores, are members slowing in their reading of books? Personally, I've always been slow to finish a book..
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Feb 2, 2013 - 1:53 PM
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mastadge
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So far in 2013, not counting coursework or comics, I've gotten a fair reading start to the year. I read Misha's Red Spider White Web, a 1990 steampunk-of-the-oppressed sort of novel. I started working through the fiction of Sylvia Townsend Warner, and thus far have read her first two novels, Lolly Willowes and Mr. Fortune's Maggot, from 1926 and 1927 respectively. I read and enjoyed Zsuzsi Gartner's 2011 caustic Canadian suburban fiction collection, wonderfully entitled Better Living Through Plastic Explosives. Warren Ellis's new thriller, Gun Machine, was an easy-to-read hoot; the new Star Wars novel by Tim Zahn, Scoundrels, was rubbish and a huge disappointment.
In the non-fiction department, I read (and worked through) George F. Simmons's Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell: Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry, an exemplary little book that covers pretty much all the essentials of high school math in just over 100 pages, and makes me wonder why I enjoyed it all so little at the time. I also read the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, which started better than it finished, and Rory Miller's excellent self defense/self-help book Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected, the follow up to his also excellent Meditations on Violence.
I'm currently in the middle of some rough courses, but am slowly but surely reading through Leonora Carrington's The Hear Trumpet and Victor Hugo's Les Misérables (I've never seen a movie or musical version and have decided not to until I've read the book), as well as a couple others in which I've made less progress so will save for my next update.
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SERIOUSLY FUNNY - Smothers's brothers
recent:
STEVE JOBS
MUSIC OF JAMES BOND
FULL SERVICE
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